Voters go to the polls 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday to cast ballots that decide the fate of a new health sciences center for Temple College.The $7.23 million package, if approved, will finance the 30,000-square-foot building, its furnishings and equipment.Five departments will have a facility custom-crafted to their use: dental hygiene, emergency medical service professions, surgical technology, medical laboratory technology and respiratory care.The five programs provide critically needed medical professionals for the hospitals and clinics of Temple, say college officials. The same five programs have made do for many years with quarters that are either inadequate or inappropriate for teaching medically related skills, according to departmental chairs and instructors.

About 400 people lined up on the sidewalk at Temple Towne Center on Thursday morning to take part in a grand opening at Goody

WASHINGTON ( (AP) The House passed aviation security legislation Thursday after rejecting a Senate version that would have turned airport screening operations over to federal employees. The vote was a major victory for the White House and its Republican allies. The bill, which takes steps to make airplanes and airports safer from attack, passed 286-139. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, voted for the bill.It followed minutes after a crucial 218-214 vote to defeat the Senate-passed, Democratic-backed alternative. The Republican-backed bill would allow screening to be contracted out to private employers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) The FBI has alerted law enforcement agencies in eight Western states that it has unconfirmed information that terrorists may be targeting suspension bridges on the West Coast. The Justice Department confirmed the warning Thursday after California Gov. Gray Davis said law enforcement officials had

A post card from the United States Postal Service explaining how to safely handle suspicious mail is hitting Central Texas mailboxes this week. The mailout should be completed by next week, according to local and state postal officials.The postal service is sending out 145 million of the post cards nationwide. The post card details how to spot a piece of suspicious mail and what to do with it once it

The Belton volleyball team went ten District 17-4A matches without even being pushed to a third game.That all changed in a hurry on Tuesday, when the Lady Tigers had to rally to beat Little Cypress-Mauriceville 9-15, 15-9, 15-10 at Conroe in the area round of the Class 4A playoffs.

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The Temple College and University of Mary Hardin-Baylor volleyball teams enter their most important weekend of the season in different situations.TC's Leopards go into the NJCAA Region V Tournament in Vernon seeded second in the eight-team event. They've beaten their first-round opponent four times, they defeated the tourney's top seed eight days ago, and they're injury-free.UMHB's Crusaders, meanwhile, go into the American Southwest Conference Tournament in Marshall as the underdogs in the four-team field. They have to play ASC East Division champion East Texas Baptist on the Tigers' home court in the opening round, they're a combined 0-4 against the tourney's other three teams, and they've been banged up.For all of their differences, however, TC and UMHB share a common goal: win and advance.Coach Charles Watts' Leopards (29-11), who finished second to Hill in the Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference, will play Collin County in a quarterfinal match at 2 p.m. today at Vernon College.The winner will battle the Frank Phillips-Cisco winner in a semifinal at noon Saturday, and the championship match is set for 6 p.m. that day. Only the champion of the single-elimination event will move on to the NJCAA National Tournament Nov. 19-21 in West Plains, Mo. by Greg Wille